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Huge advances in technology are helping spinal surgeons achieve better outcomes for patients in ways that were never previously possible. There have been vast improvements in spinal surgery over the past 30 years. Most have been facilitated by technology that allows surgeons to better visualise spinal...

Cervical disc replacement, also known as cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA), is now freely available to private patients in Australia. MBS funding was initially removed in 2006, meaning patients had to pay for the cost of the prosthesis themselves. Even though CDA had been approved by...